UPDATE (Feb 2014)! The United States Department of the Interior formally certified that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Icelandic whalers annually hunt protected minke whales and endangered fin whales in defiance of an international moratorium on all commercial whaling.

IN 1986 the International Whaling Commission enacted a moratorium on commercial whaling to protect endangered species from industrial exploitation!

THREE nations choose to violate the whaling ban: Iceland, Norway, and Japan.

In 2011, the United States Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, formally certified that Iceland is guilty of subverting international conservation efforts under the Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen's Protective Act.

The Pelly Amendment to the Fisherman's Protective Act was enacted in 1971 to conserve Atlantic salmon. The Pelly Amendment grants the President discretion to prohibit the importation of fish or fish products originating in a country that is diminishing the effectiveness of an international fishery conservation program. The Packwood-Magnuson Amendment of 1979, an amendment to the Fishery Conservation and Management Act (FCMA), allows the President to impose trade sanctions pursuant to the Pelly Amendment if a country is diminishing the effectiveness of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.

Ask the U.S. President to enact economic sanctions against Icelandic marine products (under the 1971 Pelly Amendment to the Fisherman's Protective Act and 1979 Packwood-Magnuson Amendment to the Fishery Conservation and Management Act) until the commercial slaughter of whales, especially endangered species, is stopped!